32 Tables, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Publishing Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date
26 January 1995
Publication Country
United Kingdom
Description
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language, drawing on a wide range of linguistic data. The extensive new research presented here reveals that sound symbolism plays a far more significant role in language than scholarship has hitherto recognized.
Reviews
"All of the papers are sources of tantalizing, testable hypotheses...of considerable value and evidence of a welcome renewal of interest in some very old questions." Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
